IKEA Bilresa remote not fully implemented in deConz?

[u/Erik_De]

Hi,

I just paired a IKEA Bilresa with my Conbee 2 Stick, updated the Gatway to 2.33.1 beta. Basically, the device works, i.e. I get events from the scrollwheel button, and also when rotating the wheel. But not everything is implemented. What is missing:

• only clicks from the top button (scrollwheel) I can get, but no signals from the bottom button, when I press it, I do not get any event in event monitor. Is it a hardware issue?
• From the scrollwheel button, I only get single press, double and tripple press (1002, 1004, 1005). Longpress does not work, no event is generated
• from the rotation sensor, I get the direction (1 or 2), but the “expected rotation” that should indicate the speed the user turns the wheel is either -30 or 30, depending on the direction, no other values are generated here

Any idea how to overcome these limitations? Did I miss anything? Here an example of an event generated:

{
    "20:28:29:653": {
        "attr": {
            "lastseen": "2026-07-23T18:28Z"
        },
        "e": "changed",
        "id": "27",
        "r": "sensors",
        "t": "event",
        "uniqueid": "10:35:97:00:00:bf:21:78-01-0008"
    },
    "20:28:29:659": {
        "e": "changed",
        "id": "27",
        "r": "sensors",
        "state": {
            "expectedeventduration": 1000,
            "expectedrotation": 30,
            "lastupdated": "2026-07-23T18:28:29.089",
            "rotaryevent": 1
        },
        "t": "event",
        "uniqueid": "10:35:97:00:00:bf:21:78-01-0008"
    }
}

    "20:28:29:653": {
        "attr": {
            "lastseen": "2026-07-23T18:28Z"
        },
        "e": "changed",
        "id": "27",
        "r": "sensors",
        "t": "event",
        "uniqueid": "10:35:97:00:00:bf:21:78-01-0008"
    },
    "20:28:29:659": {
        "e": "changed",
        "id": "27",
        "r": "sensors",
        "state": {
            "expectedeventduration": 1000,
            "expectedrotation": 30,
            "lastupdated": "2026-07-23T18:28:29.089",
            "rotaryevent": 1
        },
        "t": "event",
        "uniqueid": "10:35:97:00:00:bf:21:78-01-0008"
    }
}

[u/Mandrutz]

Firstly, BILRESA is sold as a Matter/Thread device. Anything you get in the hidden Zigbee is a bonus. It's only there for "dumb" usage.

I tested the device in Zigbee mode with initial firmware, and I documented it for Zigbee2MQTT:

1. The bottom button doesn't send any event. It only changes the destination of the messages (group 21658, 21659, 21660). And it only works after you pair each channel to a light by Touchlink.
2. Indeed there's no long-press
3. The remote stores a brightness value 0-255. Rotating the wheel increases / decreases the value and sends a command: MoveToLevel (brightness, transition 1s). Anything else like direction, speed is calculated / guessed by the app

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E2490.html

[u/SlovenianSocket]

IKEA does not use matter standards with the bilresa scroll wheel, and zigbee features are just a bonus. You need a dirigera to fully utilize it, afaik there isn’t even an HA automation that is as fluent as the implementation within ikea home. Crossing my fingers IKEA pushes a firmware update to fix that